StumbleUpon Is Still Good For A Few Hits
Posted on September 30, 2007
Filed Under StumbleUpon, Traffic Building
I’ve used StumbleUpon a few times in the past to generate traffic for GrownUpGeek.com and it’s worked moderately well for some pages, but for “run of the mill” pages it generated virtually no traffic at all. After the last several (failed) attempts at using Stumbleupon I finally gave up on it.
A few days ago, after writing my rant about My Fight with Microsoft, I was reminded of the power of StumbleUpon to still generate traffic after someone (not me) submitted the page to StumbleUpon. Over the course of only 2 days I received over 4,100 “Stumbles” to this page, it they’re still coming.
What can StumbleUpon do for you?
For me, almost 4,200 visitors to the blog means that a few more people learn about my blog - or in this case, my fight with Microsoft/Hotmail. But since I have no advertising here in the blog it does not translate into more money me - a few more RSS subscribers maybe, but that’s about it. However, if you have a page that you monetize it might mean a few extra dollars.. But probably not, and here’s why:
Stumblers are a picky crowd.
Much like Digger’s, Stumblers have grown tired of MFA, spam, krap sites. They will very quickly pass right by anything that smells even remotely like spam and move on to something better. This might be why my fight with Hotmail post has done so well - no advertising. Even when I received over 4,000 stumbles on a page at GrownUpGeek.com last year, CTR and earnings for that traffic were very, very low. This is no doubt because the page(s) had adsense on them and Stumbers (like Diggers) don’t click!
If you’re looking to earn money from StumbleUpon you’re better-off trying something else. If you’re looking to get some name-recognition, or you actually have a quality page with something interesting on it (sans spam and advertising), StumbleUpon might do well for you.
To learn more about StumbleUpon, check their “about” page here: How StumbleUpon works (because I’m too lazy to explain it myself).
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Just got to your fight vs. Microsoft post via Stumbleupon
Seems like a good blog!
I realy like stumble upon to discover new sites, but to be hones, I seldom revisit the pages I give a thumbs up.
I also tried to stumble a few of my pages, but I had no visits. I’ll try to submit some pages after reading this post.
Thanks.
Nice article. Thank you for writing it. I also have made several attempts at digg/stumble with different results each time depending on several factors. I aggree with your post about them being able to spot a mfa/spam and not clicking adds. Its always nice to get traffic to your site but those guys usually just come through very quickly and dont stick around to take in the rest of what you have to offer on your site.
Anaway, thanks for the article, I clicked it from you dp postbit. Hope to visit again soon and learn more.
-josh
You are aware that you are at least spreading 15 malicious cookies on this webblog?
Cookiefucker said:
Hi Cookie;
I believe the cookies you are referring to are to track if you have even been here at the blog before - if you havn’t a greeting and “subscribe to my RSS” notice will be displayed - this goes away after 3 visits.
Hardly malicious by any measure of the term.
There’s no such thing as a “malicious cookie”.
A cookie is simply a request from a website that you store a small piece of information and include it in any further requests from that website.
There are all sorts of things that companies can potentially do with cookies, but the cookies themselves are not and can not be malicious.
In any case, I count only 5 cookies, four of which are from Google Analytics and the other one, from this site, appears to only hold the number of times you have visited.
If you are concerned about Google knowing that you have visited grownupgeek.com and other sites that uses Google Analytics, then block cookies from google.com. Google will still know (thanks to the wonders of JavaScript) but they won’t know that you are the same person who visited any other site that uses Google Analytics.
If you’re even more paranoid, try turning JavaScript off. Also, turn Flash off, and ActionScript, and Java and loading images from third party sites and make sure you use Tor. Anything less, and any tracking site will be able to track you.
If you want anonymity, it’s hard work. If you want to spread FUD, do it somewhere else.